Authorities are Looking in All the Wrong Places for the Causes of Jabbar’s Radicalization

In the wake of the vehicular jihad attack in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year’s Day, authorities have been busy trying to figure out what “radicalized” Shamsud-Din Jabbar — that is, what turned him from an Army veteran who was presumably loyal to the United States into a mass murderer. This is a useful line of inquiry in order to try to prevent future attacks of this kind, but as is so often the case, the feds are barking up the wrong tree.

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NBC News reported Saturday that unnamed “experts” have determined that Jabbar’s was a fairly ordinary case: they said that “the details that have emerged about Jabbar align with the typical pattern of how a veteran can

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